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• At last, to be identified!

  At last, to be identified!
  At last, the lamps upon thy side
  The rest of Life to see! …

  Emily Dickinson

• At leisure is the Soul

  At leisure is the Soul
  That gets a Staggering Blow —
  The Width of Life — before it spreads …

  Emily Dickinson

• Auld Lang Syne (Songs from Robert Burns)

  Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
  and never brought to mind ?
  Should auld acquaintance be forgot, …

  Robert Burns

• Aurora is the effort

  Aurora is the effort
  Of the Celestial Face
  Unconsciousness of Perfectness …

• Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,

  Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine,
  Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!
  Oh the Earth was made for lovers, for damsel, and hopeless swain, …

  Emily Dickinson

• Awakening (Pushkin)

  O dreams, O dreams,
  Where are your delights?
  Oh, where are you, …

  Alexander Pushkin

• Away from Home are some and I —

  Away from Home are some and I —
  An Emigrant to be
  In a Metropolis of Homes …

  Emily Dickinson

• Baby Charley

  He’s fast asleep. See how, O Wife,
  Night’s finger on the lip of life
  Bids whist the tongue, so prattle-rife, …

  Sidney Lanier

• Baby Looking Out For Me

  TWO little busy hands patting on the window,
  Two laughing bright eyes looking out at me;
  Two rosy red cheeks dented with a dimple; …

  Ethel Lynn Beers

• Bag-Wig and the Tobacco-Pipe

  FABLE XVI.
  A Bag-wig of a jauntee air,
  Trick'd up with all a barber's care, …

  Christopher Smart

• A Ballad (In the manner of Rudyard Kipling)

  As I was walkin' the jungle round, a-klllin' of tigers an' time,
  I seed a kind of an author man, a writin' a rousin' rhyme;
  'E was writin' a mile a minute an' more, an' I sez to 'im: "Oo are you?" …

  Guy Wetmore Carryl

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  In Reading gaol by Reading town
  There is a pit of shame,
  And in it lies a wretched man …

  Oscar Wilde

• A Ballad of the Boston Tea-Party

  No! never such a draught was poured
  Since Hebe served with nectar
  The bright Olympians and their Lord, …

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• A Ballad of the Ranks

  "Who carries the gun?"
  A lad from London town.
  We'll let him go, for well we know …

  Arthur Conan Doyle

• Ballade de Margueritte (Normande)

  I am weary of lying within the chase
  When the knights are meeting in market-place.
  Nay, go not thou to the red-roofed town …

  Oscar Wilde

• Banish Air from Air —

  Banish Air from Air —
  Divide Light if you dare —
  They'll meet …

• The Battle of Hampton Roads

  'Twas in James River, not long ago,
  When the tide was falling, sluggish and slow,
  That from Newport News and Fortress Monroe …

• The Battle of the Pons Trium Trojanorum

  When the goodman's shuttle merrily
  Goes flashing through the loom,
  And the good wife reads her Plato …

  Edward Woodley Bowling

• Be Brave

  Arouse, ye men of brain and brawn,
  Unnumbered hosts that toil;
  Assert your manhood, break your chains: …

  Ross Winn

• Be Kind When You Can

  Be kind when you can, though the kindness be little,
  'Tis small letters make up philosophers' scrolls;
  The crystal of Happiness, vivid and brittle, …

  Eliza Cook

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